First impressions of Paris When it Sizzles (1964)

First impressions of Paris When it Sizzles (1964)

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29 August

First impressions of Paris When it Sizzles (1964)

Unlike in Sunset Boulevard* (1950), William Holden is not, as Joe Gillis is, prey for Gloria Swanson (Norma Desmond), but he is another writer (Richard Benson), and Audrey Hepburn (Gabrielle Simpson) seems his prey.

* Sunset Blvd. is the original title ; https://t.co/fgi6B7Q9fe. pic.twitter.com/Ne9OjN7HJa

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 29, 2018

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Some Tweets about The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Some Tweets about The Lady Vanishes (1938)

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26 August

Some Tweets about The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Sally Stewart, Margaret Lockwood, Alfred Hitchcock, and Googie Withers

From Hitchcock on Hitchcock :

'If you imply "it can't happen here"—if you set your story in Central Europe or even make your villain a foreigner—officialdom raises no objections. But if your picture is too obviously a criticism of the social system, Whitehall shakes its head.'

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This interview also tells of shipping companies' objections to a film 'based on the disaster of the Titanic' ; the Home Office to wanting to 'put the Sydney Street siege on the screen for The Man Who Knew Too Much' ; and the @BBFC to a film on The General Strike... pic.twitter.com/0vEwV5F7hc

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Alfred Hitchcock and Margaret Lockwood

To-night, Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes*, with the same mission-driven intrigue and edginess as The 39 Steps (1935), and with secret material encoded by Mr. Memory (on stage in Steps) and Miss Froy (in a musical theme in Lady)...

* From 1938, not the version from 1979 (or 2013)) pic.twitter.com/WbJ2qsmjxg

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From quiet beginnings, where we spot model-scenery before entering the hostelry's linguistic melting-pot (an inspiration for Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest ?), we're swiftly confined to a train that no one could have left (four years after Christie's Murder on the Orient Express). pic.twitter.com/CFeg6LBL7v

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From the interviews that François Truffaut boldly asked for, and Alfred Hitchcock graciously granted (to both men's credit*), one can click here to listen to Hitchcock-Truffaut Episode 7 : ‘Young and Innocent’, 1937, ‘The Lady Vanishes’, 1938 and ‘Vertigo’.

End-notes :

* A story told in Hitchock / Truffaut (2015) :

Also, don't fail to listen to what Martin Scorsese says so insightfully about the film [and Psycho (1960)] / the rarity of people seeing it on first release in Kent Jones' Hitchcock / Truffaut (2015) :

The 'stand-out' contribution to Jones' film (and to the DVD Extras) ! :) https://t.co/kluaewBPLs

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Three Tweets about The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

Three #UCFF Tweets about The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

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22 August

Three #UCFF Tweets about The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)*

Sasha Lane and Chloë Grace Moretz

Very gently, and in a different (but not unrelated) context, Cecilia Frugiuele's and her screenplay riffs on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and Girl, Interrupted (1999) :

As with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie's roles, 'an older hand' makes the situation more bearable ?

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It must be for the individual viewer to decide whether Jennifer Ehle, as Dr Lydia Marsh, is as hateful and / or misguided as Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), but the group-therapy sessions at God's Promise are right on the nose :https://t.co/z44UzYN4jhhttps://t.co/kDeL6kc5HK

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Desiree Akhavan, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane, John Gallagher, and Jennifer Ehle

New trailer! https://t.co/hpzcNhsMLv

— Desiree Akhavan (@DesireeeAkhavan) August 27, 2018

End-notes :

* As viewed at The Little Theatre cinema [@LittleTheatreUK], Bath :

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